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Everyone appreciate that I spent an hour recreating the file explorer from Windows NT

Okay this is going to be a long post because I have so many gripes about this character.

I think Jax is pretty terrible trans rep. I can agree that while I think the queer coding was obvious, Jax is a closeted self hating queer. But when it comes to her being transgender I think the whole idea went downhill from there.

First off I was angry at the discourse surrounding what type of trans she was. She's been confirmed transfemspec by the creator, but before some people thought she was actually stealth transmascspec. And their was so much fucking hatred on both sides for either opinion.

Jax was extremely misogynistic. Jax was extremely abusive. And trans people CAN be both of those, I mean, Gooseworx herself has made numerous misogynistic comments and jokes so we all know it's possible. But because Jax was a self insert and was constantly let off the hook I began seeing a rise in "omg Jax is so relatable" in a way they took comfort in. Like people happily relating to Bojack Horseman.

The reveal of her being trans in the show was seriously just bow = girl and the Isn’t She Lovely song playing in the background. For the character who's VA has routinely used the n-slur (yes the actual full out slur not just the near slur everyone was on about 3 months ago) and for a racist creator. Plus the race blind casting, cmon if like 5 of the characters are canonically people of color would it KILL Gooseworx to not have an all white cast? I thought yall wanted to stick it to Disney come on glitch give people of color a voice!

Jax isn't voiced by a trans woman either! If you can't even hire us to play us then you shouldn't be writing us imo but to each their own.

They keep milking the maid dress merch, so much so that maid Jax has more merch than the non binary character total. And the whole point of the joke was "ooh man in a dress" and it felt transmisogynistic. People also took the discomfort as gender dysphoria as a trans man being feminized once again, so IF Jax was transmasc it would be transphobic to keep putting them in dresses and girly things being they were so distrssed by it.

And finally this is just pettiness on my end but Jax being not a man felt like some sort of checkmate. Oh, you were mad this male character was constantly harassing women and non binary people? Well guess what, she's a woman! Try and complain now, suckas!

People try and say that she's this big, deep, and complex character but she did it to herself. She had every opportunity to get better and to be better but she never took it. And the fans didn't care, they spent the whole time blaming Ribbit, blaming Gangle, blaming Ragatha. Jax abused them, isolated them, tormented them and when they pushes back suddenly she was the victim. All of Jax's suffering was self inflicted and she brought down herself all on her own. Although I think Gangle's reaction to her death felt very real, I don’t like how they pushed the forgive your abuser rhetoric onto her. I'm an ex Mormon and I remember being told that all the time it's so unhelpful for a victim of abuse to be told that constantly.

Have you ever seen a violinist going APESHIT?!

Obviously there are black string players. We just don’t see them because they “don’t look like” string players.

Oh I do love grief-stricken, "constantly reminded of her because she has her face/soul" Showtime concept

LMAOO????

Its no longer a golden retriver its a whole damn cerberus

(FENRIR WAS RIGHT THERE, AND I CHOSE CERBERUS NGHHH)

Somebody hurt wrong jester today

... pals, do you see the vision?

Me gotta think hard hwo to get there nghhhhh

"Copy. Moon joy."

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

"Houston, if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary for tomorrow that will help out my vocabulary a little bit, that would be great. Thank you."

“If you’ve ever seen the top of the spotlight of the top of the Luxor at night in Vegas, this looks like what it wants to be when it grows up.”

"To all of you down there on Earth... we love you, from the moon. See you on the other side."

"We just went sci fi.

"It is so great to see Earth again. To Asia, Africa, and Oceania: we are looking back at you. We hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you too."

"We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other."

“It’s a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll.” (The name of Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife)

"Amaze amaze amaze."

"I said that we do not leave Earth, but we choose it. And that is true."

"Christina has been sleeping head down in the middle of the vehicle, kind of like a bat"

"It's really fun to be floatin' around, it just makes me feel like a little kid."

"Trust us, you look amazing, you look beautiful."

"'Homo Sapiens' is all of us, no matter where you're from or what you look like. We're all one people."

"We're going to power cycle the toilet from the ground."

"I'm proud to call myself the Space Plumber."

"We were all eagerly awaiting the chorus." (After Mission Control cut off Pink Pony Club early when waking up the crew)

"Copy heart. Copy bracelet." (In response to Wiseman giving his daughters heart hands and showing them the bracelets they made him that he was wearing)

“Welcome back. We are still here. They are in space.”

"Copy. Bubble wrap nominal."

"We have rediscovered the chocolate snacks."

“The truth is, the moon really is its own body in the universe. It's not just a poster in the sky that goes by, it is a real place."

“We will build ships. We will visit again. We will construct science outposts. We will drive rovers, we will do radio astronomy.”

This whole mission was scientific and so humane.

"I've seen a lot of new perspectives, but my perspective has not changed because I launched with the perspective that there is enough for all." (After being asked if they had a new view on humankind.)

"On behalf of all Canadians, we wanted some reassurances of your preferences for maple syrup over Nutella on your pancakes."

"And we have a great view of the moon out window 2. Looks a little smaller than yesterday." (Reid), "Guess we'll have to go back :)" (Mission Control).

"Earth is like a spaceship where we all live."

"I can see from here that we see no lines, no boundaries , no race. Only humans, who all are dependent on the same thing. Planet Earth is a crew."

Part of me wants to "um actually" my way into saying that bears are actually pretty chill and safe, and a lot of the people (especially misogynist dudebros) arguing to choose the man, are largely overestimating how dangerous bears are. You just gotta respect their space and they'll leave you alone.

And then I'm like oh. But that's not the point of the random hypothetical of course, it's to demonstrate how a lot of men don't understand misogyny and safety from men as a woman.

And THEN I start a thought cascade about how normalized it is to tell men to be protectors and aggressors in a dangerous world, and how that contributes to a sense that everything they can't control is a danger, and how weirdly enough a fear of perfectly normal wildlife behavior and an inability to leave wildlife alone is kinda linked to toxic misogyny

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